After being wowed by John Cusack's incredible new film, War, Inc, John Amato and I persuaded John Cusack to come over to C&L for a live chat a little closer to the official release date. And today's the day. This week the film will start rolling out in the Toronto area and then in New York City. So at 3pm (PT) John is bringing two of his co-writers with him, Mark Leyner and Jeremy Pikser, and they'll be talking about the movie and answering questions for an hour or so. I spoke with John about it and he gave me some insights into why he made the movie. He also recited this inspiring piece by Arundhati Roy to me:

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness-- and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they're selling-- their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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I don't believe in science. At minimum I don't believe in any science that my preacher says conflicts with the Bible. Does finding a cure for cancer conflict with the Bible? I'll have to wait until Sunday to find out. s/

Don't these mental midgets realize - rhetorical question of course as it is abundantly clear they do not - that Hitler who was a catholic and professed to be a christian acted on his "religious" beliefs when he slaughtered millions of Jews and that the KKK, many who have historically been devout Southern Baptist and such, base their warped hatred on their "religious" beliefs. Does this now mean that african- americans and jews can once again now be banned from the "lunch counters" of america again? Will ones perverted "religious" beliefs allow them to re-install separate water fountains for the "coloreds???

he number one source of knowledge for the Ku Klux Klan is the Holy Bible. One KKK member once wrote, “the Klansmen pins his faith to the Bible as the revealed will of GOD.” In fact many active Klansmen were ordained ministers. In addition, the majority of the members belong to some Protestant church.[The religious ideals of the group could be found in ceremonies such as the Klan baptism of an eight-week-old child in 1924 by a gathering of hooded members. In the early 1980’s, new religious fundamentalists used very similar rhetoric about Christian supremacy. The Reverend Bailey Smith, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention announces in 1980, “God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.” He continued by adding the fact that God can’t possibly hear the prayer of someone who does not believe Jesus Christ is the true Messiah.The Klan takes direct action against those who do not share its beliefs or those who it simply views as inferior based on its readings of the Bible. Klansmen recognize the differences of other groups and translate them into justification for hate. Most members already have a strong sense of white supremacist thought in their heads before they join the Klan. Ordained ministers in the Klan preach the Christian aspect of the Ku Klux Klan to members. These clergymen have been trained in the Church and added their own views to their religion to create an interpretation of the Bible that fits the creed of the Ku-Klux Klan.

A second term would have been all it took to put The Gipper's Alzheimer's into few view by all. By the time the Gip left office in 1988, he was full into Alzheimer's. The only ting the Gip could still memorize was a script. As an actor, it was the last ting he lost.